MORRISVILLE, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Geomagic®,
a global company providing 3D technology for digital reality, has
announced that it will showcase innovative touch-enabled medical
simulation and training applications developed by its OEM partners and
educational customers. Using Geomagic’s Sensable Phantom®
force feedback haptic devices and OpenHaptics® software
toolkit, the applications will be demonstrated at the NextMed/MMVR20
(Medicine Meets Virtual Reality) conference being held this week in San
Diego, Calif. As medical education embraces advanced simulation to
better train the next generation of clinicians, Geomagic and its
customers show how adding the sense of touch turns computer-based
learning into highly realistic training experiences for skills building
and competency testing – at zero risk to patients.

OPUS™ Mini, created by Touch of Life
Technologies of Aurora, Colo., is a medical skills training and
assessment environment that focuses on the development of
ultrasound-guided, needle-based medical skills, such as the
administration of regional anesthesia, central venous access and
lumbar puncture. The product uses a virtual patient, which is based on
real anatomy derived from its VH Dissector for Medical Education
software product.

Punch Biopsy, developed by Ohio Supercomputer Center in
partnership with medical schools in Ohio, is a simulation environment
for teaching physicians to perform a simple punch skin biopsy. Through
computer modeling, the simulation emulates various lesion and skin
thicknesses, and it includes a haptic device that provides the tactile
sensation of sampling the skin with a punch biopsy.

In addition, Geomagic will display several of its Phantom haptic devices
and demonstrate its OpenHaptics™ software. OpenHaptics™
is an API that provides a simple environment for developers to add
haptic properties to their own computer-based applications, such as
these shown by Geomagic’s OEM partners.

About Geomagic

Geomagic (www.geomagic.com)
is a global company dedicated to advancing and applying 3D technology
for the benefit of humanity. Geomagic’s scanning and design software
solutions are used to capture and model 3D content from physical
objects, organically sculpt complex shapes, and prepare products for
manufacturing. In addition, the company produces powerful 3D metrology
and inspection software that verifies dimensional quality by comparing
as-built products to master designs. Geomagic’s Sensable Phantom haptic
devices simulate the sense of touch in a digital environment.